4,826 Quotes About Self

We fail to see the oneness of all things, and because of this, we unknowingly cause a lot of harm to ourselves. We pollute the Earth that we live on, cut down the trees that produce our oxygen, destroy the ecosystems of nature and the animals that maintain them, and we mistreat and harm each other, thinking that these destructive actions will not have a direct effect on us.

some call it influence, others call it peer pressure, i call it choice

The idea that we possess a true self serves a hugely important psychological purpose. If we have an essential and unchanging identity, one we are destined to discover sooner or later, then the beliefs we hold, the choices we make, the person we become—none of this happens by chance. Instead, the entire course of our lives is inevitable, dictated by the certainty that our real self will eventually surface.

I don’t want to continue being Jorge Luis Borges; I want to be someone else. I hope that my death will be total; I hope to die in body and soul.

One of the points that all wise men and women agree on is this: If we want our world to improve, we should work on ourselves first. That’s where the significant gains are to be found. Focusing on the inadequacies of others, or the unfairness in the world, is often just a trap of our own making as we resist looking in the mirror.

The disconnect of mento women's bodiesstands to reason.They'd have to care enoughto see the other as a subjectworthy of their earnest study.My own oblivion horrifies me more.I've been here all alongbut somehow not.

Awareness influences and enables all that we are and all that we strive for.

The understanding that gives rise to intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”); that is not the talks of the enlightened one’s (Vitarags).

Die wertvollste Reise ist die Reise zu unserem Selbst.